GeorgePower down in our neighbourhood. Second time in a row. Most unusual, particular in a well organised small country like the Netherlands. Candlelight ๐ฏ๏ธ๐ฏ๏ธ๐ฏ๏ธ๐ฏ๏ธ
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#Here are #SomeTrueFacts for #You; #WhoeverYouAre...
A #SolidStateDrive [#SSD] uses the #MerestFraction of #Energy to #PowerUp and #PowerDown #Compared with #IT's #Conventional / #Mechanical #HardDiskDrive [#HDD} #Equivalent...
#IF you're #NotRoutinely #PoweringUp your #HardDrive #AtLeast #OnceAYear to #Verify your #DataIntegrity; then #DontBother #Computing #AtAll...
You're #Running at a #DeadLoss #Already; #JustLike #TheGhostOfMisterDen's #ImaginaryBusiness and #DeadInstance...
But; #DontPanic, #NoOneCares...
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Gemma โญ๏ธ๐ฐ๐บ๐ธ ๐ต๐ญ ๐None of this is to say that I am an advocate for fossil fuel consumption. Quite the contrary.
But facts are facts, and it does no one any good to obscure them or lie about them.
The first solution is #powerdown. The first solution is #conservation, not more production.
@petergleick Sorry, but I can't agree with this. Of course it's going to be expensive. Our entire civilization is predicated on fossil fuels. As to whether is going to be more expensive than *not* replacing fossil fuels, well, that's actually debatable, although there's no debate that doing nothing will also be expensive. The options aren't limited to fossil or "renewable" (there is no such thing as "renewable" energy in any meaningful sense, by the way). #PowerDown should come first.
There is some truth to this, of course, but there is also a very big difference in understanding the very real scientific limits of photovoltaic and wind power generation and the sort of technofantasism that so infects the "renewable" #energy bros. In fact, there's really no such thing as #renewable power generation, not in any truly meaningful sense.
The only feasible path to #environmental #sustainability is #powerdown #degrowth, not #GreenDelusion.
#Conservation FIRST, generation LAST.
Music NewsPower Down "Bag in Hand" video premiere - #PowerDown #BaginHand
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It really does bug me that the Retreat Farm, like most other places in town that host public events, refuses to make any accommodations for secure, convenient bicycle parking, despite being on the immediate edge of the downtown area (downtown population about 7500 people).
I counted only three bicycles at the concert, including my own. Very few people will ride to places they are implicitly told they are not welcome.
#urbanism #environment #sustainability #ecology #decency #powerdown #degrowth
The economies of all advanced nations are cancerous to Planet Earth, and lethal to human civilization.
This is for all the people who can't seem to figure out that #powerdown is the only plausible way for humanity to survive what we have done to the #ecology or Earth.
#ElectricCars and #HeatPumps aren't going to save us. #Copper now costs more than 5 times what it did just 25 years ago. Without copper, there is no such thing as an upgraded electricity transmission grid, and there's no way to make #solar panels and wind turbines do useful work.
Catarina LourenรงoHoping that the lights stay out for the day so I can read, smoke and do some gardening instead of spending my time in front of a computer discussing payment methods and other pointless job bullshit #lightsout #powerdown #galiza #galicia #spain #portugal #luz #blackout #apagao